Cricket 1903

A i * kil 9, 1903. CRICKET: A WEEKLY RECORD OF THE GAME. 55 contests for the Sheffield Shield began with the 1892-3 season is slowly increasing, and in the series just closed Duff, Hack, Macken­ zie. and Kelly have ascended into the thou­ sand. Keedman and Laver are nearing the completion of the second thousand, while Hill stands alone over the 3,000 mark. Giffen and Trumble are the only two who have secured the double of a thousand runs and a hundred wickets, and Noble is the only other player who is likely for many years to join them. The others who can make the runs cannot get enough wickets, and those who can get the wickets cannot make runs. The particulars are as follows :— 1,000 RUNS IN SHIELD MATCHED Bateman. Runs. Batsman. Runs. C. Hill .............. . 3,030 V. Trumper.......... 1,615 F. A. Iredale . 2,466 J. Darling ......... 1.560 G. Giffen ... . . 2,313 G. H. 8. Trott ... 1,5'1 M. A. Noble .. .. 2,247 J. H. Stuckey ... 1,487 8. E. Gregory .. 2.159 R. A. Duff .......... 1,204 H. Graham ... .. 2.153 F. Jarvis .......... 1,180 J. C. Keedman .. 1,920 F. T. H ack.......... 1,140 F. Laver ... ... 1,887 A.C.K. MacKenzie 1,090 J. J. Lyons .. . . 1,826 W. Bruce .......... 1,(86 H. Donnan ... . . 1,784 H. Trumble......... 1,061 J.Worrall ... .. 1,747 J .J . Kelly .......... 1,001 Proxime acceseit—W. Armstrong, 949. FIFTY WICKETS IN SHIELD MATCHES. Bowler. Wkts Bowler. Wkt*. E. Jones ............... . 209 J. V. Saunders ... 77 G. Giffen ............... . 192 C. T. P. Turn r ... 73 H. Trumble ........ 155 J. Travers.......... ... 65 T. R. McKibbin . 137 G H. S. Trott ... ... 61 W. P. Howell ... . . 133 F. Jarvis .......... ... 58 M. A. Noble ... . . 93 A. McBeth ... 5i C. E. McLeod ... . . 92 Proxime aceeaserunt—F. Laver, 46; J. C. Reed- man, 45; F. Collins 42. OBITUARY. S ir R ic h a r d G a r t h . “ An Old Harrovian ” writes :—“ The Bt. Hon. Sir Bichard Garth, K.C., P.O., died on the 23rd ult. at Cedar House, Cheniston Gardens, Kensington, in his eighty-fourth year. Mr. Garth formed one of the Eton Eleven in 1837 and 1838, playing each year against Winchester and Harrow. He afterwards assisted Oxford against Cambridge in 1839, 1840, 1841, and 1842.” He was a good average wicket-keeper, and a trifle above the ordinary run as a batsman. His best innings was played in the ’Varsity match of 1841. Oxford were set 121 runs to win, and only Garth exhibited any mastery over the bowling. Although wickets fell, he continued to score, and it was a question whether he would be able to pull off the match for his side before the last wicket fell. After great excitement Cambridge won by 8 runs, Garth carrj ing out his bat for 40 —a large innings in those days. He took his B.A. degree in 1842, and proceeded M.A. in 1845. He was called to the Bar at Lincoln’s Inn in 1847, when he joined the Home Circuit. He took silk in July, 1866, and was in that year elected a Bencher of his Inn. He was M.P. for Guildford in the Conservative interest from December, 1866, to November, 1868. He was appointed Chief Justice of Bengal in March, 1875 (in which year he was Knighted), and he continued to hold the appointment until March, 1880. Two years later he was sworn of the Privy Council. A younger brother of the deceased, the Kev. Henry Garth, who died on September 30th, 1859, aged 34, at 48, Upper Seymour Street, London, was in the Eton Eleven of 1841, 1842, and 1843. C ol . C. A. L i a r d e t (I n d ia ). A ll ciicketers who have ever played out in Madras - and many who have only a knowledge of Indian cricket—will bear with the deepest regret of the death at Ootacamund of Col. C. A. Liardet, one of the best-known names in the annals of Indian cricket. Latterly at Ootacamund, where he lived for many years since his retirement, Col. Liardet had taken a prominent pait in the promotion of Nilgiri cricket, and as the founder and donor of the Challenge Cup which bears his name, will go down to posterity as a cricket enthusiast. Forty yearB ago the Colonel took part in the first inter-Presidency match ever played in India, when a Madras team went up to Calcutta, and though it is many years now since he played regularly, he took part less than ten years ago in a Christmas fixture at Ootacamund, and his wicket was even then a difficult one to obtain. Since his retirement from active cricket his interest in the game never abated, and few indeed were the impor­ tant matches up at Ooty in which “ the Colonel” was not found standing as umpire. And it requires some keenness, too, for a man, too old for active partici­ pation in the game, to stand out for hours together under a tropical sun in minor, and possibly indifferent, cricket! To many, though, who never knew Col. Liardet as a player, his name will for ever be associated with cricket up at Ooty, for which he did so much, and it is safe to say that few men ever went up the Hills to play a match without coming into the pleasantest of contact with the dczen of Ooty cricketers, and feeling when they left that they had made another friend, “ for to know him was to love him ” ; a man for whom even the sharpest-tongued Indian backbiter never had a word of disparagement! The Colonel, too, was an enthusiastic Freemason, and in his time, occupied some of the highest posts in Madras District Blue Mark and Arch Lodges. William Morrell, who died at Notting­ ham on the 1st inst. at the age of 103, was a frequenter of all the important matches played in his vicinity during his youth. He was present at the great match on the Forest Ground, in June, 1817, between X X II. of Nottingham and X I. of England, and then saw many of the chief players of the time. Deceased, who gained some celebrity as a prize­ fighter, was born at Walker Street, Saeiton, on January 7th, 1801. T h e B l v . C. E . B . N e p e a n . The Bev. Charles Edward Burroughs Nepean, who died at Lenham, Kent on, the 26th nit. of cancer in the throat, was born in Lor don on Februaiy 5th, 1851, and was, therefore, in his fifty-thiri year at the time of his decease. He was the youngest son of the late Bev. Canon Evan Nepean, by his marriage with Abne, daughter of Mr. Herbert JtnnerFust, of Hill Court, Gloucestershire, thereby bf ing agrandson of the captain of the Cambridge eleven of 1827, who still survives at the great age of ninety-seven. Mr. Nepean was an admirable batsman, with a very neat and business-like style of play. He was for four years in the Charterhouse Eleven, and went up to Oxford with a goc-d reputation. He did not, however, become so prominent as appeared proba­ ble, being twelfth man in “ Cobden’s Match ” of 1870, and gaining a place in the University E'even only in his last year, 1873. On the latter occasion he had a great deal to do with the succeas of bis side by three wickets, scoring 22 and 50, and, with the late Cuthbert Ottaway as a partner, making a most determined stand in the second innings when the match appeared likely to end in favour of Cam­ bridge. On the strength of this excellent performance, he was selected to assist the Gentlemen against the Players, at Prince’s, later ia the season. On two occasions he appeared in the Middlesex team, playing against M.C.C. and Ground at Lord’ s, in 1873, and against Oxford University at Prince’s, in 1874. But little had been heard of him for some years, and he certainly did not appear as frequently in great matches as his ability entitled him to do. He was educated at University College, Oxford, graduating in 1873, and proceeding M.A. in 1880. He was ordained in 1874, and licensed to the curacy of Hartley Wintney, and in 1876 removed to Lenham on the presen­ tation of Mr. Akers-Douglas, the present Home Secretary, who had been a fellow- student with him at University College. He was buried on the 31st ult. at Lenham, of which place he remained vicar until his death. Mr. J. N. Ridley, who formed one of the Oxford University Authentics’ team in India, died from typhoid fever at Sydney on the 28th ult. Mr. Ridley left his comrades at Lucknow in the best of health on February 15th, with the inten­ tion of returning home via Colombo, Australia, China, Japan, and the United States. He was in his twenty-fourth year. A correspondent sends us the following additional pirticulars about Mr. Charles Wittington Landon:—He was in the Bromsgrove School X I., 1866 and 1867. He played for Lancashire in 1874 and 1875, making 47 (including a 5 and six 4’s) v. Kent, and 25 v. Yorks, both in 1874. He was tried for Yorkshire in 1878 and 1882, but met with little success. Best known as a successful all-rounder in Yorks Gentlemen’s X I., for whom he topped the century on a few occasions, also taking over 100 wickets in 1877 and 1879. He was many years in their team. Lillywhite calls him “ Pretty good fast bowler and moderate bat.”